Fall Fashions Put the Ouch
Back Into Women's Shoes

By

Marilyn Chase

Updated Oct. 13, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

S PIKE HEELS and stilettos are once again sashaying across the pages of fall fashion magazines. They portend pain for their wearers and brisk business for podiatrists and orthopedic surgeons who treat battered feet.

"There's nothing good about them," declares Kathryn Moss, podiatrist at University of California at San Francisco and the Veteran's Administration Hospital. "Elevating the heel four to five inches causes a...